#bath 32

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Kay now that I posted that essay LOL! I'm gonna nap and when I awake I'll do my liveblog for ep 32.

ALSO!!!! GUYS!!!! Look at the B-day present Nacho got me that finally arrived in the mail today!!!!

😱 😱 😱

My homie really commissioned a wholea$$ art piece/painting for me. I'm fking speechless

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WHA-

Wot the fck is all’of THIS?!?!

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Tamaki????

Fellas….

is it gay to lovingly hold hands with another man’s inner-demon as you pull him towards the dinner you helped make-

AH-hhsbdbdgahsbwj

W OW

......all of them leaving to have a nice "family" dinner.....yet no one notices Ikki's gone from their family photos............

DAMN ;_;

aND it makes it x10 WORSE when you consider how lost Ikki is now that his siblings have moved out (and the dad's gone....). It literally (for him) feels like he has no purpose

Like his role's been used up and now he isn't needed anymore.....except to fight. So he'll fight. Erasing himself even further from his family....

Erasing himself from the picture......

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Ikki 💀

o fvck

(The irony of this being asked right after he looks at his disappearance from the family photo is …💀💀💀💀💀🏃)

o fvck x2

I mean we all knew that he would say yes

(I knew from the preview that she was going to ask and well, it’s Ikki LOL. What’s he gonna do? Say no??)

Man I think what gets me about all of this is the poetic irony of it all.

Ikki using Vice’s power is a sacrifice he keeps making for his “home.” He cares for them and so he gives and gives until there’s nothing left of himself any more.

He’s repressing himself right out of existence because other peoples problems are *still* more important than his own.

And cherry on top — he’s doing everything for his home, his family — and yet he’s going to inevitably lose them because of it

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Ikki’s micro-expressions after Vice says that I’M-

OUch ooO eEeE OwwW yOuCH

Welp, Ikki.

Guess you’ll have to kill him

If ya can’t revise it, then you gotta annul it and create a new one

HE DIDN’T JUST FKING SAY THAT

IKKI —

“ITS’s My fATe aS a KaMeN rIDer”

WHY iS dumba$$ flyInG the plane

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Homie -- the bar is the floor

You don’t gotta thank these fools for nOTHIN

(Literally it’s the least Daddy Karizaki can do for the inhumane experimentation 🤪)

Yeah Ikki has enough on his plate so 🤝.

But uh…..are we gonna let Ikki visit his dad any time soon?

thanks ://

but like— can’t we let Ikki see his dad?

😶…

He might not remember him the next time they see each other

Bro. These fking

Micro-

Expressions

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Ikki I’m having trouble with sympathy rn

“You will lose all your memories if you keep transforming.”

Ikki: 😱 *transforming* ohmygahd I cannot BELIEVE I’m going to be forced to lose my memories

Everyone: No one’s forcing you to-

Ikki: *laughing sadly* I can’t believe it. *Wipes a tear from his eyes* I’m going to lose all my memories 😔. Everyone: ......What, no-

Ikki: *staring off into the distance* Can't believe this is my fate as a Kamen Rider 😔.....

Guess you’re saved from my clowning….(for now)

???? “Tama” ???

Who the heck is that

TAMAKI?!?!?!

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Didn’t expect Ikki to clapback with some actual sense

(Guess he has grown. Don’t think I’ve forgotten that Vice says this exact thing to Ikki about Daiji in episode 9. “What if he doesn’t want to be saved?”)

mhmm mhmm

Cause you got some sense in you, girl. I wouldn’t ever be able to help someone I cared about ‘end it all’ either :///

(Well I don't think I'd be able to help ANYONE 'end it all' rip)

LEAVE IT TO YOU????

BOY-

EVERY. TIME.

Damn even when I KNOW it’s coming. Fking smack to the face 💀💀💀

……

I-is Ikki trying to replace what *will* be his absence sooner or later ….once he forgets it all-

Oooop

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the other sad thing abt vice and ikki's contract is that since vice is ikki's friend now, he might be upset abt ikki losing his memories and he might be upset that he can't do anything to change the contract so that won't happen to ikki :(

man y'all :((

I keep clowning Ikki for just accepting that his lot in life "as a kamen rider" is to just lose all of his precious memories of his family in order to keep fighting (and relying on Vice / Vice's power)

But I guess I wasn't really realizing or thinking that this is probably a by-product of Ikki's view of himself and his importance.

Like he said he wouldn't run away anymore and yet he's refusing to face the situation, just passively accepted it instead of trying to figure out a solution :x....

Now that the younger sibs moved out, Ikki really doesn't feel needed anymore. Rn he's in this "now what do I live for?" phase.

Hence why he’s playing fast and loose with these contract consequences 💀💀💀

(Me and Nacho’s conversation on the topic LOL)